I have been running a product since 2015 and I feel the author's pain. The original tech I used was Ruby on Rails, and it was great (back in Rails 5). However, with Rails 7 and all the other changes since 2015, the debt was pretty overwhelming. Updating dependencies became difficult. Deploying a new server felt impossible. It felt like it was held together with toothpicks and glue. Afraid to update X because Y would break. I couldn't update Y or Z would break.
Unlike the author, my product was making actual money ($XXX,000). I ended up completely rewriting the product from scratch (took ~3 months). I just swapped the old Rails service out for the new service on April 1st.
I stuck to "simple and boring" tech for the new stack. No more Rails, etc.
Unlike the author, my product was making actual money ($XXX,000). I ended up completely rewriting the product from scratch (took ~3 months). I just swapped the old Rails service out for the new service on April 1st.
I stuck to "simple and boring" tech for the new stack. No more Rails, etc.